Word: inking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...projected a loss of at least $320 million for the fourth quarter. More than half the bank's problems stemmed from loans outside California, particularly to builders in Arizona. Experts are worried that a further downturn in California's slumping real estate market could cause a flood of red ink at the state's other big banks...
Fearing that the souring economy will lead to even more thefts, retailers are resorting to novel deterrents. One innovation is an "ink tag," a plastic disk containing three glass vials of indelible ink that is attached to a garment and removable only with a special tool. Tamper with the tag and the ink spills, staining the fabric and perhaps a finger or two. "We're saying, 'Get away with it if you want, but why are you bothering?' " says Robert DiLonardo, marketing chief of Security Tags Systems Inc., the major U.S. manufacturer. His firm has marketed nearly 2 million...
While it was minding everyone else's business, Laventhol & Horwath apparently should have been minding its own. Last week Robert Levine, CEO and executive partner of the Philadelphia-based accounting firm, announced that gallons of red ink added up to a black day and that the company was filing for Chapter 11 protection from its hordes of creditors. Ultimately, it was neither creditors nor clients who pulled the plug on the failing firm; it was Laventhol's partners themselves. Confronted by an $85 million bank debt and enormous litigation costs, the partners decided they could not afford to save...
...their hands. The Japanese buyers did not even come out for a Van Gogh still life that was expected to make $12 million to $16 million at Christie's Impressionist and modern sale two weeks ago. It too was bought in, at $9.5 million. However, a fine Van Gogh ink sketch was bought by a New York dealer for $8.4 million, the highest price ever paid at auction for a drawing...
...Education found them to be statistically significant--because there is not much difference between an applicant with a 1430 and an applicant with a 1300. Of course, over such a large pool, an average difference of this magnitude most certainly is meaningful. Fitzsimmons & Co. use up a lot of ink singing the praises of Harvard's truly gifted student athletes, and The Crimson has been careful to acknowledge them, too. The question remains: doesn't that mean that seriously marginal candidates are pulling down the curve...